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Query: UMLS:C0008370 (cholestasis)
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A thirty-year-old patient underwent an extensive abdominal surgery because of a precancerosis due to a colitis ulcerosa. An accompanying smoldering panuveitis led under immunosuppressive therapy to the loss of sight of one eye. Only an increasing vitritis of the second eye allowed the diagnosis of an endogenous Candida endophthalmitis (ECE) following a vitrectomy. A systemic administration of the common antifungal medications was impossible because of the patient's pathological blood-picture and a severe cholestasis. We report the successful use of Fluconazol (Diflucan), an antimycotic agent we never used before in this connection.
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PMID:[Endogenous candida endophthalmitis: a new therapy]. 179 89